Avs stick with same lineup vs. Red Wings, minus D Ryan O’Byrne

Forwards Paul Stastny (foot) and David Jones (knee) skated this morning but will not play in tonight’s game against the Detroit Red Wings at the Pepsi Center. Wingers Chuck Kobasew (torso) and Milan Hejduk (shoulder) did not skate today and are out.

Avs coach Joe Sacco said Jones will accompany the team to Phoenix after tonight’s game, and might be available against the Coyotes on Saturday.

Jean-Sebastien Giguere will make his second consecutive start. Only lineup change is D Shane O’Brien in for the traded O’Byrne, now a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Haynes is THE WORST play-by-play guy in the business. He’s supposed to be a professional announcer, but does absolutely nothing to hide his total hate and disdain for the Red Wings. I don’t even think he knows that his calls are possibly going to be broadcast on highlight shows.

Yeah, I get it. He’s employed by the Avs. But there’s a thing called having respect for the game. Haynes has none at all.

avs21

Yep. I’ll straight up say the Wings second goal was a stunning deke on Giguere and typically Haynes can’t bring himself to properly acknowledge a great hockey play. He’s a horrible PBP man. It’s embarrasing as an Avs fan to have him calling games.

Avsolutley

you guys don’t know much.

Feel Me

You obviously missed (or purposely over looked) the part where McNabb was teasing Haynes about being a long time Wings fan, huh?

Avalanche_Fan_in_Mi

I didn’t see the game as I was working but I really dislike broadcasters where if listening on the radio or out of the room while on television you really don’t know who scored. They get just as excited regardless of which team scored. I want the broadcast team to get excited when the team they cover scores and disillusioned when the other team scores.Detroit’s broadcasters, especially radio, are far more homers. It is like a completely different game then the one they are covering.

Tom

This just in:

As of tonight, Chris Stewart has 16 goals. One more than anyone on the Avs roster.

Shattenkirk has 3 goals. By himself, one more than all of the Avalanche defensemen currently on the Avs roster.

It’s frightening how lopsided that trade has turned out to be.

Jon E.

Chris Stewart is also playing on a one year deal where he had better prove himself or get shipped out, again.

shaker

Ah well another loss. No real surprise. Luckily our number 1 center was way better than detroits!!! Lots of top notch moral victories though. On a serious note though nice job by Malone,Olver and Van der Gulik.

Tom

Duchene got the primary assist on Detroit’s second goal. What game were you watching? Duchene is TERRIBLE on his own side of the red line.

Captain Toepick AWOL again.

Nick

Not to mention #9 was slow coming back and was watching from 2 feet away as #13 in Red pushed in the winner. Duchene flat sucked tonight. And Barrie was beaten by Zetterburg behind the net on the winning goal too. This Avs team lacks a lot of talent and has zero heart to want to win.

shaker

That’s what I was getting at. I didn’t think92 was awful. He was better than he has been recently but still a different player since his injury.

Terry Frei graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area and has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He worked for the Rocky Mountain News while attending CU and joined the Post staff after graduation. He has also worked at the Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and The Sporting News. His seventh book, March 1939: Before the Madness, was issued in February 2014.

Chambers covers college and professional hockey for The Denver Post. He has written for the Post since 1994, after dumping his first 9-to-5 office job a couple years out of college. He primarily follows the University of Denver hockey team and helps cover the Avalanche.